CVE-2007-5589

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-10-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin before 2.11.1.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via certain input available in (1) PHP_SELF in (a) server_status.php, and (b) grab_globals.lib.php, (c) display_change_password.lib.php, and (d) common.lib.php in libraries/; and certain input available in PHP_SELF and (2) PATH_INFO in libraries/common.inc.php. NOTE: there might also be other vectors related to (3) REQUEST_URI.

Affected products

phpMyAdmin: through 2.11.1.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00004.html
http://osvdb.org/37939
http://phpmyadmin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpmyadmin/branches/MAINT_2_11_1/phpMyAdmin/ChangeLog?r1=10796&r2=10795&pathrev=10796
http://phpmyadmin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phpmyadmin?view=rev&revision=10796
http://secunia.com/advisories/27246
http://secunia.com/advisories/27506
http://secunia.com/advisories/27595
http://secunia.com/advisories/29323
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1403
http://www.digitrustgroup.com/advisories/TDG-advisory071015a.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:199
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security.php?issue=PMASA-2007-6

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